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Pamela Hopkins | Nashville Rocks | Episode 4 with Jason Coleman

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Pamela Hopkins says "Giving a Damn" came from small-town experiences where people were in her business.
The cold open belongs to Jason. He sets up Nashville Rocks as a place for independent music, the music business, and the artists working around Nashville Music City. First comes the live-show plug. Nashville Rocks Acoustic Night is headed to Sip and Sound inside the Sheraton Nashville Brentwood, running from 7 to 10. Jason keeps it loose, names Lee Gibson and Mackenzie Phipps, reminds people about free parking and free admission, then jokes that maybe he has finally promoted it enough. Pamela Hopkins comes in after that. The interview settles in Nashville, Tennessee, where Jason reacts to her schedule after scrolling through her site. Three scrolls, he says. Pamela says she is busy, but she also corrects the military-date assumption because that budget has not been released yet. Jason still sees a coast-to-coast calendar. That is where the independent-artist math shows up. The schedule looks big, but the pay and workload are not major-artist level. Pamela says she is not getting major-artist paid. She talks about booking about six months out, with some work already reaching into next October. Cruises are part of the run too, including three different NCL cruises next year and a dueling piano show for listeners who cruise. Nashville stays on the calendar. She says she will be back that Friday, though it is for a private party. Jason closes by sending listeners to Pamela Hopkins online, her newsletter, the Nashville Rocks YouTube channel, and the links for videos and socials.

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A grounded artist interview centered on independent touring, cruise work, and the grind behind the calendar.

Pamela Hopkins' visit keeps one foot in the spotlight and the other in the logistics of making a living on the road. Jason Coleman walks through an independent schedule built around six-month booking windows, a run booked into next October, three cruises next year with NCL, a…

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